Scribble Line Assignment 4, Attempt 2
Marker, Pastel, Pencil Crayon, Charcoal, Pastel Chalk, Pen, Knife, Makeup, Pencil, Graphite Stick, on (8.5 x 11) paper, 10 min
Assignment 5 - Pt 2
The idea behind this pair of drawings was personification. At the time of creation, I had recently read the play Rossum's Universal Robots, which plays a lot with the ideas of what it means to be sentient and imbuing humanity into things. That is why I decided to make a scarecrow, which is seen as an imperfect facsimile of a human, but is nonetheless very human in its creation: a silly smile with that silly hat on a stick body. It reeks of humanity. Conversely, the robot had its face taken directly from a neutral mask, and its body is composed of more complicated textures, and though it is divided into a more human shape with its segments forming something closer to a human body, it reads to me as colder and more imposing. I was asked why I used paper towel in my project in tandem with paper, and while I have given some thought to it, the truth remains that it is because that was what worked best. I needed something that would adhere to crevasses and uneven or rounde...
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